- From: Anne van Kesteren <fora@annevankesteren.nl>
- Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 11:26:08 +0100
Henri Sivonen wrote: > On Feb 13, 2005, at 02:37, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > >> Furthermore, URL does not really mean anything anymore on todays web > > IMO, that stance is both impractical and revisionist. > > Quoting RFC 3986, section 1.1.3.: > "A URI can be further classified as a locator, a name, or both. The > term 'Uniform Resource Locator' (URL) refers to the subset of URIs that, > in addition to identifying a resource, provide a means of locating the > resource by describing its primary access mechanism (e.g., its network > 'location')." > > The practical matter is that the URL subset of URIs is the subset that > actually works. I think it is rather silly to talk about URIs in > contexts where everyone knows that the URI needs to be dereferencable > and only URLs (or only HTTP URLs) actually work. IIRC URLs do not include #foo, which is quite a practical thing and heavily used on todays web. Agreed that I should have dropped that last sentence. -- Anne van Kesteren <http://annevankesteren.nl/>
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